The guard got Lu Zijin's order, so he walked in front to lead Xu Huaigu. Xu Huaigu followed him downstairs, walked out of the street and walked out of the narrow street, and stopped in front of a one-story wooden house.

The guard stood still at the door, bowed his head and said to Xu Huaigu, "Mr. Xu, General Chu is inside." Xu Huaigu nodded to indicate that he understood, and the guards turned to leave.

He stood still in the doorway, straightened his clothes, and knocked lightly.

"Come in." Chu Xiuyang's voice came from inside, Xu Huaigu pushed the door in, and there were two beds inside, Chu Xiuyang and Fan Xuan lying respectively.

"Deliver the medicine, right? Just put it on the table next to the bed, I'm not in the mood to drink it right now, I'll talk about it later. Chu Xiuyang was lying on the bed, her eyes closed, her face full of loss and pain.

She didn't open her eyes, so she naturally didn't know that it was Xu Huaigu who came in, but Fan Xuan saw it, but she only opened her mouth slightly, but she didn't dare to speak.

Xu Huaigu didn't speak, he just sat down on a chair next to the bed, and looked at Chu Xiuyang helplessly.

At this moment, the door was pushed open again, and a soldier walked in with a bowl of hot medicinal soup in both hands, and said, "General, your medicine is here!" ”

"Didn't I say that you should put it next to your bed?" Chu Xiuyang's tone was very impatient, and the soldier was startled, and he couldn't advance or retreat for a while.

Chu Xiuyang opened her eyes with anger, but saw a soldier at a loss, and Xu Huaigu sitting on a chair, which made her a little confused.

Xu Huaigu relieved the soldier and said, "Okay, you can put the medicine on the table." ”

"Okay." The soldier seemed to be a little flustered by Chu Xiuyang, and hurriedly sent the medicine over, without staying too long, and hurriedly left.

Xu Huaigu looked at the back of the soldier leaving, and said, "This kid's face looks very childish, it should be no more than twenty, you scared him." Chu Xiuyang pursed his lips and turned his head to the other side, not looking at Xu Huaigu.

"I know what you're upset about." Xu Huaigu picked up the medicine, blew it, and handed it to her,

"Come, drink the medicine first, and then talk about other things." Chu Xiuyang frowned, aggrieved and guilty, and said, "Look at the way I look now, where do you still drink the medicine?" I can't even drink water. Xu Huaigu had no choice but to put down the medicine and persuade: "This is a decision made by Lu Zijin, you are only responsible for the implementation, don't blame yourself too much." Even if Lu Zijin is replaced by Lu Zijin to lead the troops to break through, he may not be able to do better. Chu Xiuyang asked, "Have you already seen Lu Zijin just now?" ”

"Yes, I just came out of him and came to see you." When Chu Xiuyang heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Then let me ask you, how many of the soldiers of Tanglin Pass are left to return to Wuliang?" Did he tell you? Xu Huaigu paused, and didn't know whether to tell the truth or lie for a while, so he said: "I'm not in charge of military affairs, what did he tell me to do?" I don't know. Chu Xiuyang closed his eyes, his face turned red with anger, and said, "You all hide it from me one by one and refuse to tell me." I am the general who guards the forest pass, and I don't know how many soldiers are still alive under my command! Okay, since you are also in the same group as Lu Zijin, what are you still coming to see me do? Let's go! Xu Huaigu looked at her with an embarrassed expression.

Seeing that the situation was anxious, Fan Xuan hurriedly persuaded: "Don't be angry, general, Lu Zijin and Xu Huaigu are also considering your injuries." Chu Xiuyang said angrily: "If you think about me, you should tell me!" Now I can't be at peace all the time, and all I think about is this, and this is for my care! ”

"There are more than 8,000 people left." Xu Huaigu suddenly spoke.

"Eight thousand ......" Chu Xiuyang jerked his heart, and his hand unconsciously clenched the quilt. She muttered, "It's too little, is Lu Zijin mistaken?" Did he really say that? Xu Huaigu took advantage of her inattention, secretly took out a fingernail-sized pill from his sleeve and put it into the decoction.

He said: "It is absolutely true, this kind of military affairs should not be mistaken. ”

"No, I'll have to go find him." Chu Xiuyang said, and as soon as he lifted the quilt, he was ready to get up. This movement involved the injury again, and suddenly she was in unbearable pain.

"Hiss" gasped. Xu Huaigu stopped her and said seriously: "Even if you want to go to him, you have to drink medicine first, otherwise you don't want to get out of this door." Chu Xiuyang glanced at Xu Huaigu, and saw that his tone was resolute, not like a fake, so he had to drink all the decoction in one gulp, and was about to get out of bed, but he felt a wave of dizziness coming, his mind was dizzy, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

Xu Huaigu placed her on the bed and covered the quilt again, then stood up and sighed. Fan Xuan was a little worried, and said, "The monk has taken too much medicine, I'm afraid that her body won't be able to hold it." Xu Huaigu looked at her and said helplessly: "Look at her like this, if I don't take the medicine, will she rest in peace?" Fan Xuan nodded and said, "Yes." Xu Huaigu still sat back on the original chair, looked at Chu Xiuyang for a while, and felt a little headache when he thought of her and his brother Chu Wenze, who was still far away as the prince of Fusang Kingdom, and couldn't help but rub his eyebrows.

Neither of them spoke, and the room was silent. After a long time, Fan Xuan broke the silence and whispered, "Thank you." ”

"Thanks for what?" Fan Xuan only felt that her heart was beating fast, and her mouth was uncontrollable, and said, "Thank you for saving me." Xu Huaigu said slowly: "You saved Chu Xiuyang, I will save your life again, this is very reasonable, one life for another, you don't owe me anything." ”

"No, I owe you." After Fan Xuan said this, she pursed her lips tightly, and her heart beat fast. As if she was afraid that Xu Huaigu would say something, she didn't dare to turn her head to look at him.

There was silence in her ears for a long time, Fan Xuan couldn't help but be anxious, two lines of tears couldn't stop flowing, she said to herself: "La Xu Huaigu's tone was flat and emotionless: "Are you talking about the events of the year?" Fan Xuan cried even more, but she was afraid that Xu Huaigu would hear it, and she was afraid that he would be disgusted, so she couldn't hold back her voice.

That look, how wronged and wronged you are, no matter how hard-hearted people see it, you will be sad.

Xu Huaigu said: "Then you might as well put it another way." You once owed me a life, but now you have saved Chu Xiuyang, and one life is worth one. As for me saving you, this life is another matter. When Fan Xuan heard this, it was as if Xu Huaigu had relieved her and forgiven her.

Suddenly, the breath in her heart suddenly relaxed, and she quickly looked at Xu Huaigu, eagerly opening her mouth to ask clearly, but the words were like a fish in her throat, but she couldn't say anything.

"Wipe away your tears. Otherwise, when someone sees it, it will be said that I am bullying you. Fan Xuan wiped two handfuls of tears with her sleeve, but the tears flowed more and more, as if she couldn't finish wiping them all.

Seeing her pitiful like that, Xu Huaigu also sighed in his heart and asked, "How have you been all these years?" ”

"That's it." Fan Xuan was stunned for a moment before replying,

"It's pretty much the same as it was before. Most of the time I practiced, but it didn't go as smoothly as it used to. Sometimes I start to wonder what the purpose of my cultivation is, sometimes I feel very guilty about myself, I feel that I have lost face to the sect and the master, and sometimes I think of you. In short, the realm is not moving much. Fan Xuan stopped when she said this, Xu Huaigu didn't answer her words, and there was silence in the room again.

"Actually, in fact, ......" Fan Xuan's mood was almost collapsed, tears couldn't stop flowing, and she said several words in her mouth

"Actually", but he couldn't say anything about the text, so he could only cry more and more. The tears were like a flood that had burst its banks, wetting a large area of bedding.

Since Fan Xuan's memory, she has spent time in the Zixia Sect, except for one time when she was very young, because she didn't go to practice because she was lazy to sleep, and after being severely scolded by the master once, she began to cry, so the master scolded even harder.

Except for that time, the rest never cried again. Even in the last Taoist meeting, when she lost to Xu Huaigu and didn't even have the last trace of dignity, she only felt very lost, and she never cried.

In my memory, her master had only taught her that time, and never said a second sentence in terms of hard work after that.

She has always felt that the master is very strict, and she is always a little afraid of her, feeling that if her realm is not high enough and not promising enough, she will be disliked by the master.

But since the Taoist meeting, she lost to Xu Huaigu, her Dao heart was damaged, and her future was bleak, and her master didn't say anything, and still treated her exactly the same as before.

At that time, she felt that the master was warm, and perhaps this was the reason why she had fallen from a high place to the bottom over the years, and she was still able to persist in coming through.

However, all of this, when facing Xu Huaigu, finally collapsed. She wept silently in front of him, and even she couldn't tell if she was guilty, scared, or both.

Behind the word "actually", there are words that she has been trying to say all these years but can't say. She originally thought that she could say it to Xu Huaigu, but those words were stuck in her throat, and she couldn't get out or come back.

"Actually, what?" Xu Huaigu asked simply. However, it was such a simple sentence without much emotion, but it seemed to give her the last motivation, so Fan Xuan said all the suppressed words in one go.

"Actually, in fact, I have always felt very sorry for you and for her. At that time, I, I was so ignorant, I just wanted to show my hand in front of my master, give my master and the sect a long face, I didn't know that it would bring such consequences! I'm sorry, Xu Huaigu, I'm sorry......" Fan Xuan couldn't cry, she said hoarsely: "But people can't be resurrected after death, what's the use of me regretting it?" Sometimes I feel that I am very tired of living like this, so it is better to let you simply kill me at that Taoist meeting, and I will pay for her life, so that it can be a hundred. But at the Taoist meeting, after all, it was my master who saved me, and I later wanted to go to you and pay for her life, but I was very afraid to see you, I was really afraid. When I saw you in Xingqing City at that time, I pretended to be calm, but in fact, I was so panicked that I couldn't do it...... "The more Fan Xuan talked, the more she talked, the more chaotic she became, and when it came to the back, Xu Huaigu didn't know what she was talking about.

But he knew that Fan Xuan should really regret it and change it sincerely. But as Xu Huaigu himself said, no one can forgive the person who killed her on behalf of a dead person, and Xu Huaigu can't say it

"It's okay" to come with these three words. Xu Huaigu asked, "Who is she?" Fan Xuan stopped talking and was stunned for a moment.

"What's her name? You tell me. You keep talking about her without mentioning her name. Fan Xuan, the person you want to apologize for is always not me, but her. Fan Xuan's eyes were red from crying, and she looked at Xu Huaigu with tears in her eyes, as if she understood a little.

Xu Huaigu said quietly: "You have to apologize to her." After a long time, Fan Xuan slowly opened her mouth and muttered to the ground: "Zhuang Yeyun, I'm sorry." I'm sorry for you. It was unusually quiet, and no one answered her.

So Fan Xuan said it several times, Xu Huaigu didn't make a sound, Chu Xiuyang slept soundly, and the room was still quiet.

Fan Xuan asked Xu Huaigu: "But when I say that, I don't know if she has forgiven me." Xu Huaigu closed his eyes and said softly: "If you want to know the answer of the deceased, you can ask the wind." ”

"How do you ask?"

"You have to say, if you forgive me, blow a gust of wind, and if you don't forgive me, stop the wind." Fan Xuan choked up: "Zhuang Yeyun, I'm sorry, I sincerely changed my mind, please forgive me." If you forgive me, blow a gust of wind, and if you don't forgive me, stop the wind. Xu Huaigu looked out the window.

I saw that the sky and the earth were quiet before, and suddenly there was a gust of wind for no reason, and the leaves were blown rustling, and it took a long time to stop.

Fan Xuan was stunned for a while, and then burst into tears. Xu Huaigu closed his eyes slightly, withdrew his fingers into his sleeve, and quietly stopped the spell.